Parosphromenus Series 8.1, P. kishii

Mysterious as Nebula

If juelinae is one of the most beautuful species in my eyes, kishii is certainly the most varied species I have ever met until now. The caudal fin pattern of kishii is never same. On the certer of the dark red caudal fin, there scattered many irregular blue blotches with random sizes, which form random patterns without constant or distinct boundray. just like the Nebula, every specimen, different. The blue color of thee blotches are also strange, it is not those common metalic blue like other paros, eg, bintan, deissneri, harveyi etc, but a mysterious light cyan color.

These blotches also dont stay like that, they change and develop with the time. Juveniles hava a full red caudal, the elder the larger the blue parts and more complex the pattern. Further, even the caudal shapes are never constant amony them. They can be rounded, can be sharply pointed in rhombic shape (which is most common), can even have a short fila, sometimes even in a non-convex shape …. Even among the offsprings of the same breed of same parents, there can be different shapes….

You never know what you will get….